Craig Shakespeare said Leicester City had to learn from their mistakes after their 3-2 defeat to Liverpool at the King Power Stadium.

City had just got back into the game at 2-1 and were pressing for an equaliser when Harry Maguire was caught in possession and Liverpool broke away to go 3-1 ahead.

However, Shakespeare said he would never tell Maguire to stop coming out of defence with the ball but said the whole team had to recognise there has to be cover for the centre back when he does surge forward.

“I think he has had a lot of plaudits over the last few games since the start of the season for doing that,” said Shakespeare of Maguire’s ability to use the ball well.

It's players who have to make decisions

“It is one of his strengths but of course we need to get the balance right because when he does that, someone needs to fill in.

“In that instance, we didn’t get it right and we were punished severely.

“We talked about it as a team, showed them clips and talked about what we could do on that occasion but ultimately it is the players who make the decisions on the pitch.

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“We have to make sure we stop the counter-attack at source in that instance.”

Shakespeare said he was confident City could start turning promising displays into points after their fourth defeat in their first six games of the season.

“I have to be confident,” he said. “They are a good group and the performances have been very good. We have to turn those performances into points.

'Our resilience was a positive'

“These next games won’t be any easier, but we know the quality we have come up against with the game changers, like Philippe Coutinho. His free-kick was a game changer.

“I think the positives are the resilience we showed to bounce back. As we have seen this season, a lot of teams who go 2-0 down against the likes of Liverpool and Manchester City can lose by four or five. We haven’t and don’t do that.

“We showed that resilience to get back into the game.

“But there are things we can do much better. When we were 2-1 down, we had to take the game to Liverpool but we left ourselves too open.